Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and has twice won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize. Her work has recently appeared in Best Literary Translations 2025, Notre Dame Review, World Poetry Review, and Plume. She is a recipient of Shepherd University’s Appalachian Photography Award, and Cornell University Library established the Randi Ward Collection in its Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in 2015. The government of the Faroe Islands honored Ward in 2024 with Heiðursgáva Landsins, a national award for distinguished service to Faroese culture. For more information, visit: www.randiward.com